Acaulescent during the first year, with several ascending, non- prehensile, decompound lvs; climbing the second year to 3 m, with slender, elongate stems and large, delicate, prehensile lvs, their rachis elongate and the uppermost lfls greatly reduced; 2n=32. Woods, chiefly in the mts.; Que. to Wis., s. to Del., N.C., Tenn., and Ind. June-Sept.

This plant was reported from Lake County by Ball in 1884 and from Steuben County by Bradner in 1892. I have been acquainted with it in cultivation for years and I saw a specimen in 1910 in an unpastured woods about 3 miles southeast of Michigan City, La Porte County. I was not prepared to take a specimen but I returned to the same spot a few years later and found the woods heavily pastured and the specimen gone. It was, no doubt, a rare plant in northern Indiana and may yet be rediscovered.